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job

job jobbed job·bing vi 1 : to do odd or occasional pieces of work for hire 2 : to carry on the business of a middleman or wholesaler vt 1 : to buy and sell (as stock) for profit 2 : to hire or let by the job or for a period of service 3 : to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots : subcontract n 1 a : a piece of work ;esp : a small miscellaneous piece of work undertaken on order at a stated rate b : the object or material on which work is being done 2 a : a specific duty, role, or function [a description] b : a regular remunerative position on the job : at work ...


Job work

Job work, the Concise Oxford Dictionary assigns several meanings to the expression 'job' but the relevant meaning having regard to the present context is 'a piece of work especially one done for hire or profit'. The expression 'job work' is assigned the following meaning: 'Work done and paid for the job', Prestige Engineering Co. v. CCE, (1994) 6 SCC 465 (476)....


job action

job action : a temporary action (as a slowing of work) by workers on the job that is meant as a protest to force compliance with demands compare strike ...


Jobbing

Doing chance work or odd jobs as a jobbing carpenter...


odd job

varied and irregularly performed of paid labor as he found only odd job employment...


Job action

Job action, means a concerted temporary action by employees (such as a sickout or work slowdown), intended to pressure management to concede to the employees' demands without resorting to a strike. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 840....


Job-targeting program

Job-targeting program, means an initiative by a labour union to maintain or improve its share of the labour in a particular market by financing or backing contractor who bid on targeted projects. Also termed market-recovery program, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 840....


curriculum vitae

A brief biographical summary of the main points of a persons life especially ones education and training the jobs one has held and other notable activities one has participated in as well as other notable points such as honors one has received It is prepared and used commonly by a person who is submitting an application for a job or position of responsibility It is also called a vita or vitae and is abbreviated CV...


Possibility on a possibility

Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that the chance that a man and a woman, both married to different persons, shall themselves marry one another is but a common possibility. But the chance that a married man shall have a son named Geoffrey is stated to be a double or remote possibility; see Williams on Real Property; 2 Rep. 51 a; 10 Rep. 50 b; Co. Litt. 184 a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92, per Lindley, LJ, and never applied to trusts of personal estate [Re Bowles, (1902) 2 Ch 650]. It gave rise, however, to the rule, now well settled in regard to limitations and trusts of realty created by instruments comin...


ada

ada (Americans With Disabilities Act) - Prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant who could perform a job despite a disability. The act also requires an employer to provide an accommodation (modified work hours or duties, or special equipment) if such an accommodation is not "unduly burdensome" and is necessary to help the employee perform. Source: FindLaw ...


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